Effectiveness and safety of a clinical decision rule to reduce repeat ionized calcium testing: A pre/post test intervention

Connecticut Medicine

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 5-10

  Salman, Momina ^a   Pike, Donna Comins ^a   Wu, Rong ^a   Oncken, Cheryl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Health care costs; Health information technology; Hospital medicine; Meaningful use; Quality assessment; Quality improvement

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECONOMICS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEANINGFUL USE CRITERIA; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; REIMBURSEMENT; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE; UTILIZATION;

CALCIUM; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; MEANINGFUL USE; MEDICAID; MEDICAL ORDER ENTRY SYSTEMS; MEDICARE; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; UNITED STATES; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 84957628346     PISSN: 00106178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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